🎬 Ticker: WBD 🎥
Price: $11.85 (+0.59%) as of Aug-15-2025, 4:00 PM ET

📌 The Insider Trigger: A Big Buy, Hollywood-Style

Move over Bugs Bunny 🐰 — Anton Levy just made the biggest appearance on the Warner stage.

• Anton J. Levy (Director)

  • Bought 325,000 shares @ $10.92 → +$3.55M 💸

  • Now owns 949,000 shares (+52% bump) 🎯

• Samuel A. Di Piazza Jr. (Director)

  • Bought 17,346 shares @ $11.41 → ~$198K 🎬

  • Now owns 163,375 shares

Why it matters: Levy isn’t just any random background extra. He’s an investing heavyweight — ex–General Atlantic Co-President — with wins in Airbnb, Alibaba, Facebook, Klarna, Mercado Libre, Slack, Snapchat, Squarespace, and Uber. If he’s buying tickets to the WBD show, maybe the sequel’s worth watching. 🍿

🏦 Institutional Audience: Packed Theater Seats

Institutions already own a massive chunk of WBD (almost 73% of shares).

Top holders include:

• Vanguard – 262M shares (10.6%)

• BlackRock – 174M shares (7%)

• State Street – 161M shares (6.5%)

• Harris Associates – 109M shares (4.4%)

Short ratio? Recently down and close to 4% now — suggesting the bears are leaving the theater. 🐻🚪

🔍 For Warner Bros Discovery (WBD)'s Institutional Ownership breakdown, see here. 

🎥 Financial Highlights: Box Office Hit or Flop?

FY 2024: The Prequel (Yikes Edition 😬)

• Revenue: $39.3B (down 4%)

• Net Income: –$11.3B 💀 (ouch, mostly impairments + amortization)

• Adj. EBITDA: $9B (down 11%)

• Free Cash Flow: $4.4B (healthy 🍀)

Q2 2025: The Plot Twist 📈

• Revenue: $9.8B (+1%)

• Net Income: $1.6B (huge reversal from –$10B last year)

• Adj. EBITDA: $2B (+9%)

• Streaming Subs: 125.7M (+3.4M from Q1) 📺

• Studios Revenue: $3.8B (+54%) thanks to Minecraft Movie, Sinners, Final Destination: Bloodlines.

• Debt: $35.6B gross, net leverage 3.3x (a villain still lurking in the script 🦹).

👉 Want the full picture? Dive into Warner Bros Discovery (WBD)'s financials here.

🍿 The Case for WBD: Emerging Value Play

✅ Insider buying (big name, big check).
✅ Streaming subscriber growth (125M+ subs).
✅ Studio division crushing it at the box office.
✅ Trading at Price/Sales < 1, Price/Book < 1 (looks cheap on paper 📄).

🎭 The Case Against: Value Trap Sequel?

❌ Heavy debt load ($35B+).
❌ Shrinking cash flow despite profit rebound.
❌ Linear TV is bleeding subscribers 📉.
❌ Stock is still down ~85% from 2021 ATH.

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🎯 Bottom Line

WBD might be the ultimate contrarian double feature:

• Best Case: A comeback blockbuster fueled by subs, studios, and a few billion-dollar films. 🚀

• Worst Case: Just another Hollywood reboot that nobody asked for. 🕳️

Levy’s buy is a good sign, but investors should still bring popcorn 🍿 and a seatbelt.

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We just binge-watch financials and toss in some Bugs Bunny gifs. 🐰💸  
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